Donald loved his nephews, though, and although he often lost his temper, he never gave up trying to get through to them. As they matured, they mellowed a bit, and while they still enjoyed playing tricks on Donald, they were much more creative and less destructive about it.

The triplets started out nearly identical. Occasionally, they would be seen wearing different colors, but they were still of a single mind -- so much so that sometimes, a single sentence would be distributed among the three of them, as if they were simply three bills on the same duck.

Only in DuckTales did they begin to differentiate. They were also each assigned a particular color.